Yellow / AC-2 (Atlantic Crossing 2) is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United States and the United Kingdom. The cable is wholly owned by

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(formerly

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) in the US following its acquisition of

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. The original owners, which each owned two of the fibre pairs, gave this cable system different names, so it is known as both Yellow and AC-2. It has a capacity of 320 Gbit/s as of January 2007, upgradeable to 640 Gbit/s. It has landing points in: # Bellport/Brookhaven,

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, United States #

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, United Kingdom

References

* * Submarine communications cables in the North Atlantic Ocean Transatlantic communications cables Infrastructure completed in 2000 United Kingdom–United States relations 2000 establishments in England 2000 establishments in New York (state) {{telecom-stub